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Born in East Berlin, Julia is eight when her actress mother uproots her family of four girls, by different fathers, in search of a better life. Their eventual landing in the remote countryside of Schleswig-Holstein solves no problems for this fractured household.

Desperate to escape a childhood of rural poverty, neglect and shame, the lonely child becomes addicted to writing. Aged 13, she leaves her family. At school in West Berlin, she finally encounters love. 

In this gripping novel based on her youthful diaries and early life, Julia Franck shows why, and how, a great writer found her voice.

Born in Communist East Berlin in 1970, Julia Franck is an author and essayist who has published novels and short stories. The daughter of an actress and granddaughter of a sculptor, her powerful novels of family and motherhood draw on her own life across divided Germany as they delve into the nation’s tumultuous past. Two of her novels have been filmed.

Her work has received numerous prizes; she has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize and the Wingate Literary Prize and was twice longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2007 her novel BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART won the German Book Prize; it was translated into 40 languages, sold over a million copies, and was the first of her books to be filmed. Julia lives in Berlin.

TRANSLATOR from German IMOGEN TAYLOR

Born in London, translator Imogen Taylor studied Modern Languages at Oxford and completed her MA and PhD at Humboldt University in Berlin. She has been living in Berlin since 2001 and working as a literary translator since 2014. Her many translations include work by Alfred Döblin, Franziska Gänsler, Dana Grigorcea and Judith Schalansky. She was the winner of the Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize 2024. She is currently translating Peter Kurzeck.